Making a difference is the only way forward!
Don’t worry, this is not going to be some chest-banging Post! I leave those for Monday to Friday. 😉 No, I just wanted to offer a couple of examples of the power of goodness and how making a positive difference is no more than wanting it. As Perfect Stranger commented last Tuesday, “A single candle may light a thousand others and they in turn many thousands more” – Buddha
The first example is about how a group of upstanding citizens rescue a school of dolphins that became stuck on a beach in Brazil.
The second example comes from closer to home. Ginger I. is a Board Member of the Humane Society of Central Arizona and is based at Payson. Jean has been a volunteer at the Society’s Thrift Store for some time and has got to know Ginger well.
Ginger recently emailed me this; it has already done the rounds of the WWW, and quite rightly so. It reminds me of the book Dogs Never Lie About Love, written by Jeffrey Masson, from which comes the following,
This ambiguity, which includes a certain ambivalence as well, has been memorialized in our speech, in our sayings, and in our tributes to and about dogs. Sir John Davies, in his epigram In Cineam (written in 1594), observed:
Thou sayest thou art as weary as a dog,
As angry, sick, and hungry as a dog,
As dull and melancholy as a dog,
As lazy, sleepy, idle as a dog.
But why dost thou compare thee to a dog?
In that for which all men despise a dog,
I will compare thee better to a dog.
Thou art as fair and comely as a dog,
Thou art as true and honest as a dog,
Thou art as kind and liberal as a dog,
Thou art as wise and valiant as a dog.Ever since Madame Roland said in the eighteenth century “Plus je vois les hommes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs), generally what has been written about dogs tends to be positive. Sometimes it is even wonderful, as in William James’s statement “Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as is his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.” Or it may be delicious, like Ambrose Bierce’s definition in his Devil’s Dictionary, “Dog, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.” Samuel Coleridge, in Table-Talk (May 2, 1830), was one of the first to note that “the best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter … may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to him … may become traitors to their faith…. The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.”
Just read that last sentence again from Samual Coleridge as you look at the photograph below, “The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.”
Learning from Dogs 
i so miss my dog now 😦
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No chance of you getting another one? So many dogs to rescue! But a big thank-you for stopping by and leaving your comment. Hope to hear from you again, Paul
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its a matter of time,just waiting for the house to finish getting its renovation 🙂
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Well, I would love to hear your story as to how you chose your next dog, how it becomes part of your life, and so on. We have 11 here at the moment; 9 rescues, 1 being ‘dog sat’, and our German Shepherd who has been with me/us since he was a pup!
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i will adopt a dog hopefully from the street like my last hopefully it will be a month from now at the moment we have no dogs just ducks 2 parents and 6 kids and lots of birds..you have an awesome no of dogs love to all of them
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Well do keep me in the loop. Jean and I are getting four young chicks tomorrow – Rhode Island Reds – so we can have our own supply of eggs!
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i will,..that’s very nice
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i dont eat duck eggs call me sentimental 🙂 ..some birds have laid eggs in their nest in 1 among the few trees we own i dont know which bird but its nice 😀
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“Change out of hope”…? I just hope we get some…
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There is inspiration in the comment Making a postive change is no more than wanting it. Would that it were that easy! Kudos to you and Jean for the example of HOW…………….mag
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Dear MaryAnne, there’s a Post coming out next week that throws some fascinating light on the hidden processes of the unconscious mind and goes a long way to explain how negative information doesn’t sink in. Paul
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there is Hope for Mankind.. he has heart most of the time.. he may need a nudge from the animal kingdom to bring it out at times! 🙂 but in general he isnt all bad… Its good to get to see that man is willing to help our Aquatic life as well.. Most people have a good generous spirit, I think its because we only are projected the bad aspects of our society by the media we think this world is such a distructive place…
Love is around And we do love our dogs.. and each other… we sometimes just need it to be brought out as we often are fearful to share it.. Loved this post ~Sue
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Sue, Jean and I were talking this morning, following us having watched the InTransition 2 film last night, that maybe the way it’s heading is that local community societies will re-emerge in some form of modern version of the stone-age days. Certainly the days of large central governments and even larger concoctions such as the EMU do seem to be heading toward the edge of the cliff – not to mix too many metaphors!
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I understand what you mean Paul, I feel personally that we are in for BIG Changes, changes we cannot as yet even ever envisage happening.. But they will certainly cripple countries and how they are run, My own vision I was given several years ago of a future was not pretty, and out of chaos will emerge a new way of being. Which will allow those communities to once again flourish, but not for material gain, for that will have gone.. It will be a sort of Co-operative where by all recourses will HAVE to pull together in order to work.. Skills exchanged and so on.. now this was not within my vision, this is my own take on things.. But I know things cannot carry on in the same vein as they are now.. Much more is to come to light which my own Spirit side communicators have told me.. But also as they constantly are at pains to tell me, Nothing is ever cast in stone. And our Future outcomes are altering ALL the time by the mass consciousness we are all part of, so each of our own thoughts and actions also have a bearing on the future outcomes of our World.. Which is why I am always asking for our thoughts to be positive for as we THINK, So we Create… Blessings to you both ~Sue
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Wow! Rich and beautiful words.
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